Monsters n' Music: Majora's Mask part 19

   Link goes to a graveyard where he is visited by a dead spirit named Flat.  Flat was a composer who wrote songs for the royal family of Ikana.  His brother, Sharp, was also a composer, but Sharp sold his soul and cursed Flat's soul to the graveyard.  While Flat was under the graveyard, he wrote a song filled with his hatred and sorrow toward his brother's actions and downfall.  This song is the Song of Storms, which is all over Youtube in a variety of dubstep remixes.  You should check them out if you're into that thing.  If not, the actual song that existed before the dubstep remixes is also quite nice.

 

   Having climbed the cliff, Link comes upon a strange building shaped like a music box.  It has a mill wheel in the river next to it, but the river doesn't have enough water in it so the music box house is doing nothing.  Surrounding the music box house are several mummies.  These mummies, known as gibdos, are nothing to mess around with, so we're just gonna let them devils do their thing for now and completely ignore them.

Somebody call Brendan Fraser.  We need him to yell at them a lot.  

     Link follows the riverbed to a cave.  Within the cave is another spirit.  This spirit is Sharp, the brother of Flat.  Sharp makes for a horrible soul.  He questions why Link would come to the land of the dead and assumes Link wishes to be dead.  Working his foul magic, Sharp makes Link gradually begin to weaken.  Under the circumstances of being faced by a spirit, it would make sense to play the Song of Healing.  While it worked fine every other time, the difference is that Sharp is not a tortured soul but rather a torturing soul.  He finds the song to be soothing (they all say that) and then proceeds to get back to killing Link.  The Song of Storms seems like the next best thing. It was written by flat so that would make it fitting to use against sharp.  When Link plays that, Sharp panics and stops torturing Link.  With Sharp's spirit gone, water begins to pour out of the cave and fill the riverbed.  As the water passes down the stream, the mill wheel turns.  As the wheel turns, music begins coming out of the house which causes all the gibdos to sort of dance around before descending into the ground.

     With the mummies gone, the camera zooms up to the door of the house and a click can be heard from the door unlocking.  Link comes out of the cave to see a little girl come out of the house and watch the river flow by.  This girl is very timid and will run in the house and lock the door if she sees Link approaching.  Using the mask that allowed Link to slip by the guards in the pirate base, Link enters the house.

    As it turns out, it is not the monsters outside that led the girl to lock the door, but the monster within.  Link opens a closet, and in a scene that I swear did not make me jump out of my chair, a half mummy guy jumps out and starts approaching Link.

I'm not shaking.  It just so happens
there's a small earthquake under
my feet.  

    After recovering and finding wherever I threw the controller, it is noted that the man isn't attacking.  Link plays the Song of Healing (because why not) and the mummy wraps fall off the guy, freeing him from the curse.  The wraps form into a mask, because it can be assumed the song fixed his soul without completely removing it and instead cut out the bad part and put it in the mask in a weakened state.  The daughter and father embrace in a rather happy moment and Link takes the mask to do something that we will discuss in the next post.